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INTTEE STATES PATENT EEICE.

VALENTIN BURST, OF NEW YORK, Y.

GARBAGE-RECEPTACLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 224,636, dated February 17, 1880.

Application led October 22, 1879.

To all whom t may concern:

Beit known that I, VALENTIN BORST, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Garbage-Receptacles, which improvement is fully set forthin the following specication, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a vertical central section of my apparatus. Fig. 2 is a like section taken in the linex x, Fig. 4. Fig. 3 shows a portion of the mechanism for elevating and lowering the platform-frame. Fig. 4: is a cross-section taken inthe line y y, Fig. '2.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

My invention relates to the arrangement of garbage-receptacles below the surface of the ground; and it consists in the combination of a main frame for arrangement in the ground, a vertically-movable platform-frame guided in the main frame, a vertically-movable standard guided in the platform-frame and carrying a top piece for holding a garbage-receptacle, and mechanisms independent of each other for elevating and lowering the platform-frame and the standard, so that the platform-frame may be elevated to bring its platform to a level with the surface and left in this position While the standard is raised to bring its top piece to a level with the top of a cart, thereby facilitating the dumping of the garbage-receptacle.

In the drawings, the letter A designates the main frame. B is the platform-frame, and O the standard.

The main frame A comprises an upright plate, d, and a standard, e, and the platformframe consists of standards ff2f3, joined by top and bottom plates, and of the platform G,

which is situated at a point below the tops of the standards. The standards j" f2 engage the edges of the upright plate d, andthe standard f3 engages the standard e, so that the platf form-frame is guided on the main frame.

\ The movable standard G is situated at or near the center of the platform-frame B, and this frame is provided with a sleeve, h, for guiding the standard, while the latter is provided with a top piece, I, which is above the platform G, and in this example is dish-shaped for holding a garbage-receptacle.

For the purpose of elevating and lowering the platform-frame B, I make use of two cogwheels, J J', which engage with teeth cut in the standards f f2, and on one of whose shafts is a pinion, k, meshing with a cog-wheel, L, which is adapted to be turned by means of a key, and with which is combined a ratchetwheel, m, and pawl o, while for the purpose of elevating and lowering the standard C, I use a pinion, N, which engages with teeth cut in the standard; but it is obvious that other mechanisms may be substituted for the ones described.

The'main frameAis intended to be put into the ground, as below a sidewalk, and when the parts are lowered the platform-frame B is on a level with the main frame, while the top piece, I, of the standard rests on the platform G, which, being on a lower part of its frame, allows a garbage-receptacle, P, to be placed upon the top piece. When the garbage-receptacle is to be emptied the platform-frame B is elevated unt-il the platform Gis on a level with the surface or sidewalk, the standard G being carried with it.

The platform-frame B is left in the position named, and then the standard C is elevated until its top piece, I, is on a level with the top of the cart into which the garbage is to be emptied, when the receptable can be readily upset or dumped. When this is accomplished the receptacle P is returned, and the standardv and platform-frame lowered to their normal positions. Y 1

To the top of thev main frame A is attached a cover, Q, hinges r being used for this purpose, and in this cover is arranged a gate or wicket, S. Both the cover Q and the gate S are equipped with locking devices, and the gate is ou such a part of the cover that when it is lifted garbage can be deposited in the re- IOO The eombinetion,in a garbage-receptacle, of In testimony that I claim the foregoing I a main frame for arrangement in the ground, have hereunto set myhand this 5th day of Sep- :L vertically-movableplatform-frame guidedin teinber7 187 9. the main frame, a vertically-movable standard 5 guided inthe platform-frame and carrying a. VALENTIN BORST.

top piece for holding :t garbage-receptacle, und mechanisms independent of each other for Witnesses: elevating and lowering the platform-frame and WILLIAM MILLER, the standard, all constructed and adapted for CHAS. VVAHLERS. i'o use substantially as described. 

